Category: social justice
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A Few Things to Consider Before Becoming A Remote-Friendly Company
A few years ago when I was at Clubhouse I blogged about our process of becoming a geographically distributed team. In that case, the first stumblings towards global domination were not made to acquire talent but rather in an attempt to retain talent vital to our team (talent = people we really loved working with…
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My DEI Sniff Test
I recently started a fantastic and challenging new job, but before I got here I spent 6 long months carefully job hunting. At this point in my career, I have afforded myself the right to be a lot more picky about where and with whom I work since I spend more waking hours with coworkers…
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Gratitude: May 2019
Before the month ends, I am just sliding in here to share a few things that gave me life this month. Cillian Murphy’s Playlist on BBCRadio 6 Music I completely live for Cillian Murphy. For the past few months, he has been covering for Guy Garvey (of Elbow) on BBC Radio 6 Music. I like…
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Gratitude: April 2019
Here are some things I was grateful for last month. I meant to post this last month, but I started a new job and the month zipped by! New job! I am now the Head of Customer Success at Nylas! I couldn’t ask for a better group of folks to work with and the trips…
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Gratitude: January 2019
Just sharing one of the things that lifted my spirits this month…. Jeremy Dutcher is a classically-trained queer Canadian Indigenous tenor, composer, musicologist, performer and activist. He is a member of the Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) band of the Tobique First Nation in North-West New Brunswick, and after doing a research project exploring old wax cylinder recordings…
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Gratitude: December 2018
The last few months have been tricky for me. In some ways they’ve been super fulfilling and in others they have been exceedingly frustrating. But through it all I’ve been grateful for my family, friends, comrades, and even strangers who’ve been eager to grab coffee or lunch and talk, offer help, or just join me…
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Angélique Kidjo sings Blewu in front of world leaders for Armistice Day
I was exceedingly proud to receive this video of Angelique Kidjo singing this song in Ewe (my family’s language!!) to world heads of states as part of the Armistice Day Celebration. May the spirits of the ancestors do their best on this lot. Ay yi yi. Here are the lyrics in English and then below…
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Gratitude: End of Summer 2018 Edition
The kid is back in school (yes!!) and summer is just about to close the door, so I’m just dropping in with a little gratitude before the fall. 1) Terence Nance’s Random Acts of Flyness on HBO is SO BLACK and gorgeous and genius and one of the best things I’ve ever seen anywhere ever.…
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Rewrite the Docs
Thanks to everyone who watched my talk at Write the Docs Portland 2018. The blogpost that it is based on is here and below are some links to the organizations I mentioned. The ones that accept donations are indicated with a $ sign: The Collective for Liberation Ecology and Technology The National Council for Incarcerated…
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Gratitude: April 2018
You know the drill. Before the month is out, I just want to take a moment to give thanks for a few things that have been giving me (sorely-needed) life this month. 1) Drake’s “Nice for What?” I’ve been having a tough month and this song and video came right on time. As the saying…
Camille E. Acey 